Jul 8
Top Secret/SCI
Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)
IT - Data Science
Reston, VA (On-Site/Office)•Fort Belvoir, VA (On-Site/Office)
Reston, VA/Fort Belvoir
As a Sr. Data Scientist on our team, you'll lead the charge in transforming raw data into actionable insights and cutting-edge machine learning solutions that directly impact a mission-critical defense IT system. Your expertise in advanced analytics and AI will help architect the intelligence layer of the platform—powering large-scale document processing, search, and classification at unprecedented speed and scale. This role puts you at the forefront of innovation, enabling the implementation of LLMs and streaming pipelines that handle millions of records weekly. You'll also mentor and guide a growing data science team, shaping future technical leaders while driving forward a robust, intelligence-driven infrastructure that advances the mission.
You Have:
• 5+ years of experience in applied data science or ML roles, including using Python and NLP and LLM implementation
• 5+ years of experience with data exploration, data cleaning, data analysis, data visualization, or data mining
• Experience with production-level systems, data lake environments, and streaming data, including Kafka
• Experience implementing end-to-end ML workflows from data prep to deployment and evaluation
• Ability to quickly learn infrastructure or systems concepts, including how pipelines interface with data lakes
• Ability to design, implement, and iterate on ML models for document classification, extraction, summarization, and search
• Ability to take ownership of data science workflows that interact with a production system streaming millions of documents per week
• TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor's degree
Nice If You Have:
• Experience in collaborating with MLOps and infrastructure engineers to ensure robust model deployment, monitoring, and retraining pipelines
• Experience supporting platform components such as documents indexing or search, GPU workloads, and distributed storage, including Cloudera
• Experience in the development of algorithms leveraging R, Python, SQL, or NoSQL
• Experience with Distributed data or computing tools, including MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL
• Experience with visualization packages, including Plotly, Seaborn, or ggplot2
About Blue Sky
Blue Sky Innovative Solutions (Blue Sky) assists its federal, state and local, and commercial clients with solving their toughest challenges in the areas of IT Infrastructure Support and Engineering; Application Development and Maintenance; Program and Project Management; and Management Consulting. Find out more about Blue Sky at www.bsis-llc.com. Blue Sky is an equal opportunity employer and recruits mission-oriented, proactive, skilled candidates from across the United States. As an SBA certified HUBZone small business, Blue Sky has a special interest in recruiting and hiring personnel who reside in HUBZones. To determine whether you reside in a HUBZone, visit http://map.sba.gov/hubzone/maps/ . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
As a Sr. Data Scientist on our team, you'll lead the charge in transforming raw data into actionable insights and cutting-edge machine learning solutions that directly impact a mission-critical defense IT system. Your expertise in advanced analytics and AI will help architect the intelligence layer of the platform—powering large-scale document processing, search, and classification at unprecedented speed and scale. This role puts you at the forefront of innovation, enabling the implementation of LLMs and streaming pipelines that handle millions of records weekly. You'll also mentor and guide a growing data science team, shaping future technical leaders while driving forward a robust, intelligence-driven infrastructure that advances the mission.
You Have:
• 5+ years of experience in applied data science or ML roles, including using Python and NLP and LLM implementation
• 5+ years of experience with data exploration, data cleaning, data analysis, data visualization, or data mining
• Experience with production-level systems, data lake environments, and streaming data, including Kafka
• Experience implementing end-to-end ML workflows from data prep to deployment and evaluation
• Ability to quickly learn infrastructure or systems concepts, including how pipelines interface with data lakes
• Ability to design, implement, and iterate on ML models for document classification, extraction, summarization, and search
• Ability to take ownership of data science workflows that interact with a production system streaming millions of documents per week
• TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor's degree
Nice If You Have:
• Experience in collaborating with MLOps and infrastructure engineers to ensure robust model deployment, monitoring, and retraining pipelines
• Experience supporting platform components such as documents indexing or search, GPU workloads, and distributed storage, including Cloudera
• Experience in the development of algorithms leveraging R, Python, SQL, or NoSQL
• Experience with Distributed data or computing tools, including MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL
• Experience with visualization packages, including Plotly, Seaborn, or ggplot2
About Blue Sky
Blue Sky Innovative Solutions (Blue Sky) assists its federal, state and local, and commercial clients with solving their toughest challenges in the areas of IT Infrastructure Support and Engineering; Application Development and Maintenance; Program and Project Management; and Management Consulting. Find out more about Blue Sky at www.bsis-llc.com. Blue Sky is an equal opportunity employer and recruits mission-oriented, proactive, skilled candidates from across the United States. As an SBA certified HUBZone small business, Blue Sky has a special interest in recruiting and hiring personnel who reside in HUBZones. To determine whether you reside in a HUBZone, visit http://map.sba.gov/hubzone/maps/ . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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